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...says. To make use of what there is, he has already built six major dams; eleven others are under construction. With intensive irrigation, the Shah believes that he could triple Iran's present arable land-now only 10% of its total area-and produce enough food to sustain a population of 75 million. To do so, however, will require more water than Iran's rainfall and rivers can provide, and the Shah intends to get it from the sea. He is negotiating with Washington for the installation of a network of desalination plants along the Persian Gulf. Once...
McNamara, however, argued that the thin ABM shield is "Chinese-oriented." He did not give much attention to the overwhelming probability that this country could sustain a surprise Peking attach--if China were actually rash enough to hit the U.S. with nuclear weapons--and still retaliate with sufficient force to liquidate the Chinese. Peking's harried leaders are surely aware of this. They also know that Cina cannot hope to achieve anything approaching nuclear party with the U.S. for many decades...
These lingering difficulties are too small to sustain increased demand for U.S. oil. Having stepped up its output by 12% (to a record 9,400,000 bbls. a day in August) to help meet Western Europe's needs, the U.S. now faces a problem of oversupply. One result was an order last week by the Texas Railroad Commission, which cut the maximum allowable output per well from 54% to 46.7% of capacity. By December, oilmen expect that the limit will shrink to its pre-crisis norm...
Blank Check. Constitutionally, Congress can only begin a conflict by a declaration of war, and then sustain it by voting whatever appropriations the President requests to carry on the fighting. The U.S., of course, has not declared war in Viet Nam. Nonetheless, in 1964 Congress did pass, with only two dissenting votes, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, affirming its readiness "to approve and support the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression...
Occasionally, the cliches do part long enough to let through the eloquent facts that sustain the book. It is mainly those facts that account for its presence on the bestseller lists-and strongly suggest that Novelist Arnold might better have written straight nonfiction...